In medical charts, the term "N.A.D." (No Apparent Distress) is used for patients who appear stable. The phrase also aptly describes America's medical system when it comes to treating the underprivileged. Medical students learn on the bodies of the poor - and the poor suffer from their mistakes. Rachel Pearson confronted these harsh realities when she started medical school in Galveston, Texas.

Counting Backwards

A Doctor's Notes on Anesthesia

By:
Henry Jay Przybylo MD

Narrated by:
Tom Perkins

Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins

Unabridged

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For many of the 40 million Americans who undergo anesthesia each year, it is a source of great fear and fascination. In
Counting Backwards, Dr. Henry Jay Przybylo - an anesthesiologist with more than 30 years of experience - has written an unforgettable account of the routine procedure's daily dramas and fundamental mysteries. Przybylo has administered anesthesia more than 30,000 times in his career - erasing consciousness, denying memory, and immobilizing the body before reversing all of these effects.

The River of Consciousness

By:
Oliver Sacks

Narrated by:
Dan Woren,
Kate Edgar

Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins

Unabridged

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In
The River of Consciousness, Dr. Sacks takes on evolution, botany, chemistry, medicine, neuroscience and the arts and calls upon his great scientific and creative heroes - above all, Darwin, Freud and William James. For Sacks these thinkers were constant companions from an early age; the questions they explored - the meaning of evolution, the roots of creativity and the nature of consciousness - lie at the heart of science and of this audiobook.

4 out of 5 stars

A lot to take in

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Anonymous User
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01-03-2018

The Soul of America

The Battle for Our Better Angels

By:
Jon Meacham

Narrated by:
Fred Sanders,
Jon Meacham

Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins

Unabridged

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Our current climate of partisan fury is not new, and in The Soul of America Meacham shows us how what Abraham Lincoln called the “better angels of our nature” have repeatedly won the day. Painting surprising portraits of Lincoln and other presidents, including Ulysses S. Grant, Theodore Roosevelt, and LBJ, and illuminating the courage of influential citizen activists and civil rights pioneers, Meacham brings vividly to life turning points in American history. Each of these dramatic hours have been shaped by the contest to lead the country to look forward rather than back, to assert hope over fear - a struggle that continues even now.

No Time to Spare

By:
Ursula K. Le Guin

Narrated by:
Barbara Caruso

Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins

Unabridged

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From acclaimed author Ursula K. Le Guin, and with an introduction by Karen Joy Fowler, a collection of thoughts - always adroit, often acerbic - on aging, belief, the state of literature, and the state of the nation. Ursula K. Le Guin has taken listeners to imaginary worlds for decades. Now she's in the last great frontier of life, old age, and exploring new literary territory: the blog, a forum where her voice - sharp, witty, as compassionate as it is critical - shines. No Time to Spare collects the best of Ursula's blog, presenting perfectly crystallized dispatches on what matters.

The Friend

A Novel

By:
Sigrid Nunez

Narrated by:
Hillary Huber

Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins

Unabridged

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When a woman unexpectedly loses her lifelong best friend and mentor, she finds herself burdened with the unwanted dog he has left behind. Her own battle against grief is intensified by the mute suffering of the dog, a huge Great Dane traumatized by the inexplicable disappearance of its master, and by the threat of eviction: Dogs are prohibited in her apartment building. While others worry that grief has made her a victim of magical thinking, the woman refuses to be separated from the dog except for brief periods of time.

No Apparent Distress

A Doctor’s Coming-of-Age on the Front Lines of American Medicine

By:
Rachel Pearson MD

Narrated by:
Rebecca Gibel

Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins

Unabridged

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In medical charts, the term "N.A.D." (No Apparent Distress) is used for patients who appear stable. The phrase also aptly describes America's medical system when it comes to treating the underprivileged. Medical students learn on the bodies of the poor - and the poor suffer from their mistakes. Rachel Pearson confronted these harsh realities when she started medical school in Galveston, Texas.

Counting Backwards

A Doctor's Notes on Anesthesia

By:
Henry Jay Przybylo MD

Narrated by:
Tom Perkins

Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins

Unabridged

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For many of the 40 million Americans who undergo anesthesia each year, it is a source of great fear and fascination. In
Counting Backwards, Dr. Henry Jay Przybylo - an anesthesiologist with more than 30 years of experience - has written an unforgettable account of the routine procedure's daily dramas and fundamental mysteries. Przybylo has administered anesthesia more than 30,000 times in his career - erasing consciousness, denying memory, and immobilizing the body before reversing all of these effects.

The River of Consciousness

By:
Oliver Sacks

Narrated by:
Dan Woren,
Kate Edgar

Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins

Unabridged

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5 out of 5 stars
18

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4.5 out of 5 stars
17

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
17

In
The River of Consciousness, Dr. Sacks takes on evolution, botany, chemistry, medicine, neuroscience and the arts and calls upon his great scientific and creative heroes - above all, Darwin, Freud and William James. For Sacks these thinkers were constant companions from an early age; the questions they explored - the meaning of evolution, the roots of creativity and the nature of consciousness - lie at the heart of science and of this audiobook.

4 out of 5 stars

A lot to take in

By
Anonymous User
on
01-03-2018

The Soul of America

The Battle for Our Better Angels

By:
Jon Meacham

Narrated by:
Fred Sanders,
Jon Meacham

Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins

Unabridged

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Our current climate of partisan fury is not new, and in The Soul of America Meacham shows us how what Abraham Lincoln called the “better angels of our nature” have repeatedly won the day. Painting surprising portraits of Lincoln and other presidents, including Ulysses S. Grant, Theodore Roosevelt, and LBJ, and illuminating the courage of influential citizen activists and civil rights pioneers, Meacham brings vividly to life turning points in American history. Each of these dramatic hours have been shaped by the contest to lead the country to look forward rather than back, to assert hope over fear - a struggle that continues even now.

No Time to Spare

By:
Ursula K. Le Guin

Narrated by:
Barbara Caruso

Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins

Unabridged

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From acclaimed author Ursula K. Le Guin, and with an introduction by Karen Joy Fowler, a collection of thoughts - always adroit, often acerbic - on aging, belief, the state of literature, and the state of the nation. Ursula K. Le Guin has taken listeners to imaginary worlds for decades. Now she's in the last great frontier of life, old age, and exploring new literary territory: the blog, a forum where her voice - sharp, witty, as compassionate as it is critical - shines. No Time to Spare collects the best of Ursula's blog, presenting perfectly crystallized dispatches on what matters.

The Friend

A Novel

By:
Sigrid Nunez

Narrated by:
Hillary Huber

Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins

Unabridged

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When a woman unexpectedly loses her lifelong best friend and mentor, she finds herself burdened with the unwanted dog he has left behind. Her own battle against grief is intensified by the mute suffering of the dog, a huge Great Dane traumatized by the inexplicable disappearance of its master, and by the threat of eviction: Dogs are prohibited in her apartment building. While others worry that grief has made her a victim of magical thinking, the woman refuses to be separated from the dog except for brief periods of time.

Make Trouble

Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead - My Life Story

By:
Cecile Richards

Narrated by:
Cecile Richards

Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins

Unabridged

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From Cecile Richards - the president of Planned Parenthood, daughter of the late Governor Ann Richards, featured speaker at the Women's March on Washington, and "the heroine of the resistance" (Vogue) - comes a story about learning to lead and make change, based on a lifetime of fighting for women's rights and social justice.

5 out of 5 stars

Inspiring!

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Anonymous User
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23-04-2018

What the Qur'an Meant

And Why It Matters

By:
Garry Wills

Narrated by:
Robertson Dean

Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins

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Garry Wills has spent a lifetime thinking and writing about Christianity. In
What the Qur'an Meant, Wills invites listeners to join him as he embarks on a timely and necessary reconsideration of the Qur'an, leading us through perplexing passages with insight and erudition. What does the Qur'an actually say about veiling women? Does it justify religious war? There was a time when ordinary Americans did not have to know much about Islam. That is no longer the case.

The Queen of Hearts

By:
Kimmery Martin

Narrated by:
Shannon McManus,
Catherine Taber

Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins

Unabridged

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Zadie Anson and Emma Colley have been best friends since their early 20s, when they first began navigating serious romantic relationships amid the intensity of medical school. Now they're happily married wives and mothers with successful careers - Zadie as a pediatric cardiologist and Emma as a trauma surgeon. Their lives in Charlotte, North Carolina are chaotic but fulfilling, until the return of a former colleague unearths a secret one of them has been harboring for years.

Behemoth

A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World

By:
Joshua B. Freeman

Narrated by:
Stephen Bowlby

Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins

Unabridged

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We live in a factory-made world: modern life is built on three centuries of advances in factory production, efficiency, and technology. But giant factories have also fueled our fears about the future since their beginnings, when William Blake called them "dark Satanic mills". Many factories that operated over the last two centuries - such as Homestead, River Rouge, and Foxconn - were known for the labor exploitation and class warfare they engendered, not to mention the environmental devastation caused by factory production.

5 out of 5 stars

History made real

By
Suzie
on
05-05-2018

A World Without 'Whom'

The Evolution of Language in the BuzzFeed Age

By:
Emmy J. Favilla

Narrated by:
Christine Marshall

Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins

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As language evolves faster than ever before, what is the future of 'correct' style? With wry cleverness and an uncanny intuition for the possibilities of Internet-age expressiveness, Favilla argues that rather than try to preserve the sanctity of the written language as laid out by Strunk and White, we should be concerned with the larger issues of clarity, flexibility, playfulness and political awareness. Her approach to the new rules - as practical as they are fun - will fascinate and delight believers and naysayers alike.

The Common Good

By:
Robert B. Reich

Narrated by:
Robert B. Reich

Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins

Unabridged

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With the warmth and lucidity that have made him one of our most important public voices, Robert B. Reich makes the case for a generous, inclusive understanding of the American project, centering on the moral obligations of citizenship. Rooting his argument in everyday reality and common sense, Reich demonstrates the existence of a common good, and argues that it is this that defines a society or a nation. Societies and nations undergo virtuous cycles that reinforce and build the common good, as well as vicious cycles that undermine it. Over the past five decades, Reich contends, America has been in a slowly accelerating vicious cycle.

Publisher's Summary

The award-winning author of God's Hotel offers a radical reimagining of how we practice medicine

In the quarter-century that Victoria Sweet has been a doctor, "health care" has replaced medicine, "providers" (vastly outnumbered by administrators) look at their laptops more than at their patients, and the ruthless pursuit of efficiency has vanquished not only trust and intimacy but also often the effectiveness of treatment.

Victoria Sweet knows that there is an alternative way, because she has lived and practiced it. In her new book, she reflects with compassion, wit, and profound insight on experiences drawn from her time in medical school, internship, and residencies, and the clinics and hospitals that lay beyond - the path to the "slow medicine" in which she has been pioneer and inspiration. Via unforgettable stories of the patients she tended and the colleagues with whom she served, she gives voice to a way of medicine that responds to bodies rather than data, that appreciates the profession as craft as well as science, and that alchemizes "fast" and "slow" into a much more humane, sustainable, and successful way of caring and being cared for.

Slow is Beautiful

Thanks to VictoriaSweet for writing this fabulous book and for taking the time to cultivate slow medicine. She has the antidote for what ails us as a culture, and fortunately for anyone who is sick, she is writing about and teaching what our practitioners most need to learn. God spare us all from “health care.”

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Angelika Nugent

04-12-2017

disappointed

i loved gods hotel. I read the hard copy and found it a page turner. this one... well, I dont like her narration style. not enough to listen to the end.

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Gloria Moreira

27-10-2017

Terrible recording

Could not get through the first chapter. Very poor recording and not the best narration. Had to return.